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Ed Miliband insisted that he was pleased with Labour’s local election results, despite the party’s failure to make a major breakthrough.

Labour held off a threat from UKIP to hold on to one of its safest seats in Thursday’s only Westminster by-election. It also scooped around 300 council seats and said that it had won councillors in key general election battlegrounds.

The results showed that Labour had managed to erase the gains the Tories had made at elections in 2009, when Gordon Brown’s government was deeply unpopular. Its gains were broadly in line with independent predictions in the run-up to